Researchers have developed a tractor that can till, seed and fertilise fields
by itself. It uses the global positioning satellites to find its way around the
field. The team at the National Agriculture Research Centre in Tsukuba, Japan,
who developed the tractor to cut the labour costs, say the machine can find its
way with a margin for error of less than 10 centimetres.
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